Is Chess a game or a sport?

i think it is a game.

I would like to say it is a sport.

According to this it could be considered a sport, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sport

but,  in my personal definition a sport requires physical activity. All sports are gmaes not all games are sports type of thing.

 I feel Chess is a game , when drug testing becomes a major part of chess it will offically be a sport  : )

I am under the impression that a sport is an occasion where two or more individuals take part in competition, friendly or not, to eventually determine a winner. However i would say a game purely because it isn't physical, and that if you go by the definition i heard you could argue the case for olympic cluedo!

I think is a sport but you use your body just in a different way..

Chess is a game like tic-tac-toe.

Its basically both, as are all REAL sports.

im ganna say it's probably a game AND a sport.

It's a sport. Not a physical sport, but mental. Look it up; FIDE is a large sports organization. Heck, they want to get it into the Olympics!

There aren't any athletes in it for the most part, but it's not the same as any other game. No one devotes their careers to checkers, or plays Monopoly for a living, or is obsessed to the point of exhaustion with Backgammon. 

Chess is also the greatest game in the world, (Biggest, most intricate, and most fun.) so it deserves the distinction of a sport!

A mental exercise, competitively organised by sporting interests.

Opinions can't answer this...its just a Plain Fact that it is either sport or game according to who ever it was that defined those words.

I don't know, in other words :)

I would say both

it is a game for us but a sport for masters like topolav

It's either a spame or a gort.

chess is fun!

chess it not a sport.  but it is in a level of its own as a game

all games can be sports and vice versa just depends on the context they are played in

It's played on a board... with pieces.  Can you think of any sport that does that?  Now, can you think of any games that do that?

 i think it is a sport, 2 much concentration 4 game.